Cops: Officer stabbed outside South Side bank

May 23, 2009

A man was charged Friday night with stabbing an officer outside a bank in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Dyangelo Collier, 35, of the 5300 block of South Paulina Avenue was charged with one count of aggravated battery, three counts of misdemeanor aggravated assault and one count of attempted murder, according to a police news release. In a bond hearing today, Cook County Criminal Court Judge Adam D. Bourgeois ordered Collier held on $1 million bond.

Officers responded to a call of a suspicious person about 9:45 a.m. at 4809 S. Ashland Ave., where they approached Collier outside a Chase Bank branch to begin questioning him, when he stabbed one of the officers with an undisclosed weapon, police said.

The officer was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said News Affairs Officer John Henry said.

Henry could not provide a cause for the attack or what Collier was believed to be doing at the bank.